Deir Aames () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
Etymology According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the convent of Amis."Palmer, 1881, p. 20
History In 1243, during the Crusader era, Deir Aames (called Derreme, or Dairrhamos) belonged to Venice. Röhricht, 1893, RHH pp. 289- 297, no. 1114; cited in Pringle, 1997, p. 46
Ottoman era In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seems of Crusading times. At the church there is a drawing like the stone of Aitit. As the stone of Deir Amis is certainly Christian, so must also be that of Aitit."Renan, 1864, p. 640; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 114
In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by Metuali families.Guérin, 1880, pp. 387-8 He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a column in the interior of a small mosque, cut stones scattered over the ground, cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut. On an ancient lintel is carved a double cross in a circle."Guérin, 1880, pp. 387-8; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 114
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on a ridge, with olives and arable land around, containing about 100 Metawileh; water from cisterns." Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 91
Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.94% of registered voters in Deir Aames. 99.58% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/دير-عامص/المذاهب/
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External links Deir Aames, Localiban Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons